Restaurant reopens after one lunch service led to 103 COVID-19 cases — but diners stay away

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Western Sydney's Thai Rock restaurant made national headlines when more than 100 coronavirus cases were linked to a lunch service — it reopened last week, but now, there's another problem.

A business has a confirmed coronavirus case, so it closes while potentially infected staff and customers are traced, and the premises are sterilised.

No one knows this devastating progression better than Stephanie and David Boyd, whose Thai Rock restaurant was home to Sydney's biggest coronavirus cluster.The couple shut their Wetherill Park eatery on July 9 after a staff member tested positive to the virus.A week after reopening, their restaurant is empty."If we continue like this for another four weeks, we'll be out of business.

 

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Lol all those measures taken sound like they were put in place way too late (nice vague reporting on that ABC) Very little sympathy for businesses that ignore the seriousness of this pandemic...I believe this is the last honest version of capitalism left.

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